Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Caucasian or eastern European people whose empire, centered in southern Hungary and extending widely between the Elbe and Dneiper Rivers, reached its peak in the late sixth and early seventh centuries.
- noun A member of a traditionally Muslim people of southern Dagestan and neighboring areas of Azerbaijan.
- noun The Caucasian language of this people.
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- proper noun A North
Caucasian language spoken mainly in Avaria (Republic ofDaghestan ) as its official language, and in parts ofAzerbaijan . - noun A person belonging to this people of Caucasus, mainly of Daghestan, in which they are the predominant group.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Avar language or people.
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Examples
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[34] [Footnote 3011: The Ogors or Varchonites, from Var. a river, (obviously connected with the name Avar,) must not be confounded with the Uigours, the eastern Turks, (v. Hammer, Osmanische Geschichte, vol.i. p. 3,) who speak a language the parent of the more modern Turkish dialects.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Var. a river, (obviously connected with the name Avar,) must not be confounded with the Uigours, the eastern Turks, (v. Hammer,
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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During the anti-Russian wars of the nineteenth century, the great Avar sheikh Imam Shamil used the networks of the Sufi brotherhoods to unite mountain tribes against the invaders.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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During a recent move within Brooklyn, Eddie Avar wanted to make sure one thing never made it off the van and into his new eight-bedroom home: bedbugs.
Bedbug Fears Add To Stress Of Moving Melanie Grayce West 2010
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They fought the Russians in the nineteenth century not as Chechens but as Muslims and inhabitants of particular mountain villages, under the Avar holy warrior Imam Shamil.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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They fought the Russians in the nineteenth century not as Chechens but as Muslims and inhabitants of particular mountain villages, under the Avar holy warrior Imam Shamil.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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During the anti-Russian wars of the nineteenth century, the great Avar sheikh Imam Shamil used the networks of the Sufi brotherhoods to unite mountain tribes against the invaders.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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They fought the Russians in the nineteenth century not as Chechens but as Muslims and inhabitants of particular mountain villages, under the Avar holy warrior Imam Shamil.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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They fought the Russians in the nineteenth century not as Chechens but as Muslims and inhabitants of particular mountain villages, under the Avar holy warrior Imam Shamil.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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During the anti-Russian wars of the nineteenth century, the great Avar sheikh Imam Shamil used the networks of the Sufi brotherhoods to unite mountain tribes against the invaders.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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